Posted by Marc Martin on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/video-software-suggestions-tp1509509.html

Hi all,

I've been thinking about updating some of the video clips
to higher quality on my UFO website, and also adding some
new ones. As I've just been experimenting here, I'm
reminded that one of the biggest and most frustrating
obstacles about this is finding decent software to
use. I generally find some sort of solution
that requires 6 different programs, and I end up using
each program for basically one step of the process.
I've tried more general programs, but they usually
crash or cannot do what I want.

So, I'll put a question out there for the group -- does
anyone have any programs that they can honestly recommend
as good programs and will do several of the following steps?

-- extract video clips from a DVD
-- trim/edit clip
-- adjust the audio track via limiting/compression/
volume/equalization
-- crop unwanted edges from the picture
-- resize the video
-- adjust the picture (brightness/contrast/gamma/
hue/color saturation/sharpness)
-- save to an MPEG-4 file, with adjustments
allowed for video/audio bitrate/quality, frame rate,
audio channels (mono/stereo)
-- runs on Windows XP

Oh, and it also shouldn't cost too much money, should not
require too much memory, not be bloated with all sorts of
additional features that I have no use for, not crash
all the time, and not have a difficult to use interface.

Like I said, I do have a way to do all of the above, but
it's a rather cumbersome process requiring a variety of
freeware/shareware programs.

Thanks!

Marc